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A. c. WOOD CONDUCTOR SUPPORT Filed March 10, 1925 A Gum/M,

Patented Sept. 25, 1.923.

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CONDUCTOR SUPPORT.

Application filed March 10, 1923. Serial No. 624,220.

To [ZZZ whom it mag, concern 7 Be it known that I. ARTHUR C. VVOOD, a citizen of the Unlted States of America,

residing at Mansfield, in the county of Rich land and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Con.-

duotor Supports of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to supporting devices for; conductors and has particular reference to that class of supportused to suspend a trolley wire from a hanger or other means of support. I Y C One of the objects of my invention is to provide a means in the support to permit of a vertical movement of the trolley wire adjacent the hanger and especially directly below the hanger upon the passage of a current collector beneath the hanger in contact with the trolley wire.

Another object of my invention is to provide a resilient member against which the current collector must act in causing the conductor to rise vertically. My invention produces a cushioned support permitting vertical movement of the trolley wire relative to the hanger upon the passage of a current collector below the hanger.

Another object of my invention is to provide means whereby the trolley wire will meet with yielding resistance in moving upward adjacent the hanger which would otherwise be the case in the construction herein described on account of the pivotal action between the members. In other words I provide yielding means for preventing the free pivoting of the parts constituting the device.

One of the principal benefits derived from a device embodying these objects is the decrease in wear upon the trolley wire due to the non-yielding character of the trolley wire immediately below and adjacent the hanger. Intermediate two adjacent hangers the trolley wire is free to rise as the current collector moves along in contact therewith, but when the current collector is immediately below the hanger or very close thereto, it offers resistance to the uniform freedom of the upward movement of the trolley wire and this produces what is termed in the trade as a hard spot, and has the efiec't of a hammer blow uponthe trolley wire. ,My invention 'isintended to eliminate or soften the hard spots in the drawing accompanying this specification:

Fig. 1 is a side view in elevation of my invention. I i

. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the preferred form of my invention I employ supporting member 1-.v provided with an internally threaded recess 2 which is' a-means of securing the supporting member toa hanger. 'A tongue 3 forms the lower part ofthe 'supportingfmember l and has therein a transverse opening 4 to receive the pin 5. The pin-is shown with ahead 6 at one end and a cotter pin 7 at the other end. Secured to the supporting member by means of the pin 5 is a securing member 8 provided with a U shaped longitudinal shown. The supporting and securing mem-' bers' are held together by means of the pin 5 which permits the members to pivot about the pin 5 relative to each other,'and also permits the securing member8 to move vertically relative to the supporting mem her 1. For structural reasons the washer 17 is interposed between one of the ears l1 and the cotter'pin 7.

Intermediate the ends of the supporting member 1 is a longitudinal passage 14 within which is positioned a resilient member 15 and secured therein by means of the screw 16. The endsot the resilient member 15 bear upon the ends of the securing member andofler a yieldingresistance to the pivotal action and the vertical movement oi the securing member 8 relative to the sup porting member 1. w 'It will be evident that in operation the structure described above embodying my invention ofi'ers a resilient support for the trolley Wire, and it Will also be evident to those skilled in the art that many modificamaintain it in a predetermined position.

2. A conductor su a aort comprisin a su ll i e P porting member provided with'means to engage a hanger a conductor-engaging lnem ber secured to the supporting member and having means to engage the conductor, means permitting the said members to move relative to each other in a direction cor responding to the" axis of the supporting member and resilient means secured to the supporting member and engaging the conductor-engaging' member to yieldingly resist said relative movement. v I

3'. A conductor support comprising a supporting member provided With means to engage a hanger, a eonduetor-engaging member pivotally secured to the supporting member and having means to engage the conductor means permitting the said members to-move relative to each other in a direction corresponding to the axis of thesupporting member, and resilient means secured to the supporting member and engaging the conductor-engaging member to resist said relative movement and pivotal movement.

' 4. A conductor support comprising asupporting member provided With means to engage a hanger, a passage through the supporting member to receive a supporting pin, conductor-engaging member provided with ears, an elongated slot'in each ear, a

pin passing through't'he pass'age'in the supporting member and the elongated slotsin the conductor-engaging member andsecu'red therein to maintain the; supporting memher and conductor-engaging member 'm operative relation and resihent'rneans' terpose'd between the said member-s'to "resist relat ve movement thereof.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ARTHUR ofWoo-D. 

